First Worldwide Conference on Open Living Labs

Preliminary Announcement on Open Living Labs Worldwide Conference taking place in Amsterdam in November 11th-13th, 2013.

This is a preliminary announcement of a 3-day Worldwide Conference on Open Living Labs to be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in November 2013.

It is organized by the European Network of Living Labs with support from their effective members Amsterdam Living Lab. The conference will supported by local authorities and other sponsors.

Preliminary Announcement on Open Living Labs Worldwide Conference taking place in Amsterdam in November 11th-13th, 2013.

This is a preliminary announcement of a 3-day Worldwide Conference on Open Living Labs to be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in November 2013.

It is organized by the European Network of Living Labs with support from their effective members Amsterdam Living Lab. The conference will supported by local authorities and other sponsors.

It is the goal of this conference to sum up the results of the world-wide community of open living labs and to provide a useful forum for an exchange of information among the involved people in Living Lab activities and research all over the world.

The conference will feature a series of invited papers, each providing an overview of the individual research areas, including a series of workshops (to which you are invited to contribute to) There will also be a comprehensive booth/poster sessions in order to showcase either your Living Lab or your projects.

Planned sessions:

Day 1: Research & Networking Day with Call for Papers

Day 2: Workshops on different thematic areas with Call for sessions

Day 3: Policy session on the global significance of the Open Living Labs movement

We will shortly announce the Call for Papers and the Call for Worskhops and for the booth/poster sessions.

Printed versions of the invited talks, contributed papers and posters will become available in the conference proceedings. Publication is intended in one of the major professional journals or conference series. The Editors will soon be chosen by the organizing committee. The organisers will aim at speedy publication.

Potential participants are invited to pre-register by sending an email to the organisers at this address: info@enoll.org. This will ensure that you will be kept updated about the preparation for this conference and will automatically receive the following announcements.

It is planned to issue the next Announcement at the end of January with more information. Follow us on our social media facebook (ENoLL- European Network of Living Labs) and our twitter @openlivinglabs.